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Cold Working and Fire Polishing
Recently I was working on a large order of custom recycled glass soap dishes and needed to make the edges more clean cut and polished.
It's no problem to saw them square on my tile saw, but I wasn't sure just how much polishing they would need. I decided to do a quick test. I sawed two identical strips of thick window glass on my tile saw.
I'll be using my trusty bench polisher to do the polishing with diamond pads. If you are unfamiliar with cold working, I intend to polish the edges where the 200 and green line are, then move over one and polish the next bit with 400, etc. This will give me a gradient of polished edges.
After all this cold working, I'm going to Fire Polish ONE of the strips using the slump schedule. This will give me an idea of how much cold working I need to do to get the desired finish.
Here are the polished strips, the two cold worked ones on the left and on the right, the fire polished strip next to a cold worked strip.
For my purposes, cold working to 400 and then fire polishing gives me the perfect finish for the job.
I hope this information will help you with your own cold working projects.
Thanks for reading!
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